I love Sitepoint! And...oh, they have forums? I'll have to join those!

I'm more interested in all possible syntaxes.

Whatever you like! As the article I linked to says, you can create whatever metas you want, although there's not a lot of point in creating them unless they're going to be used in some way, so unless you're writing your own application that will make use of them, you're best off sticking to the ones that are already established.

The basic ones are http-equiv, description [whisper]and keywords[/whisper]. Dublin Core produced a list of "standard" metas that authors could use - they take the format <meta name="dc.title" content="(insert title here)">. Many of these replicate other tags such as <title> or various <link> formats, and they've never really taken off.

TehYoyo
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2012-03-27T14:06:56Z —
#9

Stevie_D said:

Whatever you like! As the article I linked to says, you can create whatever metas you want, although there's not a lot of point in creating them unless they're going to be used in some way, so unless you're writing your own application that will make use of them, you're best off sticking to the ones that are already established.

The basic ones are http-equiv, description [whisper]and keywords[/whisper]. Dublin Core produced a list of "standard" metas that authors could use - they take the format <meta name="dc.title" content="(insert title here)">. Many of these replicate other tags such as <title> or various <link> formats, and they've never really taken off.

Let me get this straight.....you can create your own meta tags?

Also, what exactly is http-equiv?

So probably I'd use:

Description

Author

Keywords

(insert title here)

My eyes!!!!! My eyes!!!! I used to respect you, Steve...

Stevie_D
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2012-03-27T14:36:02Z —
#10

TehYoyo said:

Let me get this straight.....you can create your own meta tags?

Yup. That's why they're "meta", they're tags about information. Of course, what happens once you've created them is anybody's guess.

Right. That's what I was mostly looking for. Would that be acceptable?

Off Topic:

Ha, that didn't work!What! Works for me! You liar! (Or maybe you just don't have MS Word - I figured that w/ your use of French Script, it just worked like Font Family - if you have it, it shows.

Stevie_D
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2012-03-27T17:04:20Z —
#14

[ot]

TehYoyo said:

Ha, that didn't work!What! Works for me! You liar! (Or maybe you just don't have MS Word - I figured that w/ your use of French Script, it just worked like Font Family - if you have it, it shows.

Ah - one of the features of Opera is that it refuses to display text in a non-alphanumeric font. Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. I'd forgotten that and assumed it was SPF that was trying to thwart you.[/ot]

TehYoyo
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2012-03-27T21:27:50Z —
#15

Stevie_D said:

Off Topic:

Ah - one of the features of Opera is that it refuses to display text in a non-alphanumeric font. Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse. I'd forgotten that and assumed it was SPF that was trying to thwart you.

Darn that Opera...no wonder it has 2 percent! Chrome Fanboys unite!

~TehYoyo

RyanReese
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2012-03-28T02:27:24Z —
#16

TehYoyo said:

Darn that Opera...no wonder it has 2 percent! Chrome Fanboys unite!

~TehYoyo

You do realize that's not the reason it has 2% correct?

TehYoyo
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2012-03-28T02:55:51Z —
#17

RyanReese said:

You do realize that's not the reason it has 2% correct?

Well, yes. Of course. I was just kidding (:

~TehYoyo

traveluruguay
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2012-04-02T14:48:37Z —
#18

Title, description and keyword etc are the 3 basic meta tags located in <head></head> section of a page known as meta tags. There are many available. Actually meta tag describe a page to search engine like google. When we search something with key phrase in search engines it shows title and description in search result of a website or web page.

Black_Max
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2012-04-05T06:53:45Z —
#19

TehYoyo said:

Well, yes. Of course. I was just kidding (:

Agh, the browser wars are restarting! Let me plump down for Opera, and be a proud member of the 2% (while staunchly standing up with the 99% here in the States, but that's another topic entirely). But I'm happy with Chrome or FF as well, so no badmouthing of anything besides IE from me.

Stevie_D said:

Keywords is largely a waste of time.

Agreed. I toss 'em into the sites I do, but if I spend more than five minutes on them, that's too long. As Stevie says, descriptions are an entirely different issue. That's what the search engines display in their summaries of your site, so write good ones.

TehYoyo
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2012-04-05T14:05:28Z —
#20

[ot]

Black_Max said:

Agh, the browser wars are restarting! Let me plump down for Opera, and be a proud member of the 2% (while staunchly standing up with the 99% here in the States, but that's another topic entirely).

Oooooh. Let's not venture into politics (of course), but I'm not a fan of that movement.